V-2 rocket move on loading freight car during 'Operation Sandy' in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Men move around tracks. A loading freight car near them. Men fix V-2 rocket on the car. A loading freight car carries a V-2 rocket. It follows an army vehicle. It moves on road passing through town of Las Cruces. A sign board of 'Coca-Cola' appears. The car arrives at a place. A box car nears a truck. A crane lifts a V-2 rocket. The rocket is placed on a truck over the mounting racks. Men fasten the holds of the racks to secure the rocket.
Night scene of a V-2 rocket test launch (also known as an A4 rocket) from Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany. V-2 rocket ignition and liftoff. View as it rises in the sky. A trail of fire at its tail end during flight. Brief camera view of fire on ground near launch site. Flames arise. (World War II period).
V-2 Rocket (A4) test launch scene at night at Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany. V-2 rocket ignition at night. Flames light the test site area. Area surrounding launch pad appears to catch fire. View shifts to an area with flames rising; no rocket seen....possibly following its explosion. Huge flames arise. (World War II period).
German slates refer to the dream of "Northern" people to fly, fulfilled by aircraft development. Scenes from Paris airshow in 1908, when it was a feature of the automobile show that year. Hangars bear names of aircraft companies: Bleriot; Vetze and others, with historic vintage airplanes of the period parked on the grass in front of each. A man plays with a dog in the grass. Spectators are seated in stands set up in the background. Scene shifts to 1935, where a long row of German aircraft are shown parked with engines running. Then it shifts to 1943, with a long line of German Messerschmitt aircraft parked with engines running. An animated map shows air lines of communication emanating from center of Germany and extending throughout Europe. Huge formations of German warplanes are seen in flight.
An animation showing mountain peaks and 20 km marked on a vertical line. Picture of sky with moon and stars. Animation showing distance between moon and earth, 400000 km marked on a straight line plotted between moon and earth. Demonstration of rocket principle in nature using plants. Cotyledons of a seedling is touched from among a pot of seedlings. The cotyledons frees with a jerk.
American rocket boat tests. Malcolm Pope fits a rocket booster into an assembly on the back of his boat. . The boat moves under a bridge and Pope ignites the rockets, which accelerate the boat unevenly, so he loses control and the boat moves in a circle. Pope and his boat emerge from cloud of smoke unhurt. 'Dixie Torpedo' written on the boat.
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